“Our payments revenue from Zynga decreased by 20% this quarter compared to last year,” he said.

“But the interesting thing is that the rest of the games ecosystem has actually been growing. Our monthly payments revenue from the rest of the ecosystem increased 40% over the past year since payments has been adopted. This evolution is pretty encouraging.”

Interestingly, Zuckerberg also noted that facebook will continue its push on mobile as that’s where its users are most engaged; Zynga is sensibly making a strong bid in the same direction, having painted itself into a corner where significant lay-offs were required.